brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) (11/20/88)
First off, EGA_TREK has made it to the pc binaries newsgroup. Be sure and get it from there before it leaves your system. The following comment was posted by the binaries moderator regarding the PostScript version of the manual that I sent along with EGA_TREK. >The program itself, for which this is a manual, was already posted in >four articles. This really is a very unusual manual, in that each word >is on a separate line. I didn't test to see if it would print >properly. (A plain text manual is included with the program as already >posted in the previous four articles, so this manual is not needed >unless you need PostScript output.) I believe that the moderator doesn't understand how PostScript and proportional spacing of text operates. The reason why the words of the manual are basically on separate lines is for justification. I have the manual formated for left and right justification, ie, straight-edged sides. In order to do that, the space between the words is variable. So, each word is told where to start. That requires that each word be on a separate line in PostScript. If PostScript has any micro-justification done, words may even be broken up. I have seen that in many things that I have done. I hope this simple explanation helps explain the weirdness of the PostScript printer file. -- harvard-\ att--\ Mr. Video ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown rutgers-/ decvax--/ ARPA/INTERNET: astroatc.UUCP!nicmad!brown@spool.cs.wisc.edu